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ALTA Certification Academic Language Therapy
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1. Explicitly teaches strategies and techniques for studying texts and acquiring meaning
Open Syllable
Reading Comprehension Support
Adolf Kusmaul
Auditory Processing
2. r-controlled syllable
Phonemic Awareness
Vr
Great Vowel Shift
Curriculum referenced tests
3. Gray Oral Reading Test-Fourth Edition Screening test. Provides an efficient and objective measure of growth in oral reading and an aid in the diagnosis of oral reading difficulties Standard Scores - Percentile Ranks - Grade Equivalents - Age Equivale
Matthew Effect
Modification
IDEA
GORT
4. Present the parts of the language and then teaches how the parts work together to make a whole. Part of a MSLE Program
James Hinshelwood
[-'le
Synthetic Instruction
Multisensory
5. A class of open speech sounds produced by the easy passage of air through a relatively open vocal tract. A - E - I - O - U
Multi-Sensory Approach
Chall's Stage 3
IDEA
Vowel
6. Whole language. Founder of Whole language concept
Chall's Stage 2
Chall's Stage 0
Six basic types of syllables
Frank Smith
7. Given normal hearing - the ability to understand spoken language in a meaningful way.
Vowel
Components of Reading Instruction
Auditory Processing
Prefix
8. Multisensory Structured Language
Consonant
Phonics
Bottom-up Reading Approachs
MSL
9. Whole language - Drop Everythng and read - evaluation through miscues - founds of whole language
Reliability
Kenneth and Yetta Goodman
Texas Education Code 38.003
Texas Administrative Code 74.28
10. Present the whole and teaches how this can be broken down into component parts.
Reading Comprehension Support
Curriculum referenced tests
Accent
Analytic
11. Supported only by "qualitative research" instead of quantitative research - Teaches "whole words" in word families - Students are not explicitly taught that there is a relationship between letters and sounds for most sounds
Latin layer of language
Linguistic Method
Cognition
Reliability
12. Provide different ways for kids to take in information or communicate their knowledge back to you. The changes do not alter or lower the standards or expectations of a subject or a test.
Accommodation
Digraph
Morphology
WIATII
13. Closed syllable - open syllable - vowel- consonant-e - r controlled syllable - vowel team - final stable syllable
Receptive language
Tactile
Anglo-Saxon layer of language
Six basic types of syllables
14. Normalized standard scores with a range of 1 to 9. They are status score within a particulur norm group.
Synthetic Instruction
Letter naming Chart
Raw score
Stanine Scores
15. The flat diacritical mark above a vowel in a send picture or phonic/dictionary notation that indicates a long sound.
Composite Score
Phonology
Letter naming Chart
Macron
16. 1896 - wrote first article in medical literature on "word blindness" in children
Dr. W. Pringle Morgan
V >
Academic Achievement Tests
Dyslexia
17. Behaving without thinking about possible consequences. May act or speak without first thinking about how their behavior might make other people react of feel
Impulsivity
Bottom-up Reading Approachs
Vr
Funding
18. 1904 - reported 2 cases of "congenital word blindness" - called for schools to establish procedures for screening as well as appropriate teaching of those that were identified with congenital word-blindness
5 disorders the related to dyslexia
VAKT
James Hinshelwood
CTOPP
19. Ability to understand and express spoken language
Oral Language
Tactile/Kinesthetic Learners
V >
Combination
20. Wide Range Achievement Test
Norm-referenced tests
Chall's Stage 3
WRAT
Combination
21. Reading for Learning "the New" - Expand vocabularies - build background and world knowledge - develop strategic habits
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22. Is one that provides for translating test scores into a statement about the behavior to be expected of a person with that score or their relationship to a specified subject matter. Most tests and quizzes written by school teachers are criterion-refer
Criterion-Referenced Test
Vowel Digraph
Consonant Digraph
NICHD
23. Is a specific learning disability that is neurological in origin. It is characterized by difficulties with accurate and/or fluent word recognition and by poor spelling and decoding abilities. These difficulties typically result from a deficit in the
ESL
Dyslexia
Phonics approach
Affix
24. His research in the field of reading was fundamental to the emergence of today's scientific consensus about what reading is - how it works and what it does for the mind.
SBOE
Texas Administrative Code 74.28
Phonics
Keith Stanovich
25. Stress or emphasis on one syllable in a word or on one or more words in a phrase or sentence. The accented part is spoken louder - longer - and/or in a higher tone. The speaker's mouth opens wider while saying an accented syllable.
Accent
Percentile
Kenneth and Yetta Goodman
Cedilla
26. Shakespeare - Samuel Johnson - first comprehensive dictionary of English - Noah Webster - first dictionary of American English - Oxford Dictionary published in full 1928
Old English
Modern English
Tactile/Kinesthetic Learners
Chall's Stage 2
27. A diacritical marking. A wavy line placed over any vowel before r in a combination to indicate the unaccented pronunciation eg letter. The tildes used both in coding words and in a sound picture. When the pronunciation of any unaccented vowel-r combi
Norm-Referenced Test
Fluency
Tilde
Sound Symbols Association is taught to mastery in two directions...
28. A quick probe that is done frequently in order to make instructional changes in a timely fashion.
ADHD
Progress Monitoring
Modification
[-'le
29. A word to which affixes are added. A base word can stand alone.
Standard score
Impulsivity
Base Word
Sight Words
30. The curved line placed beneath c to indicate its "soft" or (s) pronunciation - as opposed to its hard or (k) pronunciation. Students use the coding on c before the letters e - i - or y (the softeners) - to remind themselves to pronounced the (s) soun
Pre-English
Cedilla
Reliability
Oral Language
31. Take frequent study breaks - move around to learn new things - work at a standing position - chew gum while standing - listen to music while studying - skim material first then read in detail
RTI
Tactile/Kinesthetic Learners
Composite Score
Breve
32. Inferential learning of a concept cannot be take for granted! Never assume!
Language Experience called 'Whole Language'
Latin layer of language
Macron
Direct Instruction
33. Construction and Reconstruction - Construct understanding based on analysis and synthesis.
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34. The term is also used for the language now called Old English - spoken and written by the ________ and their descendants in much of what is now England and some of southeastern Scotland between at least the mid-5th century and the mid-12th century.
Sound Symbols Association is taught to mastery in two directions...
Anglo Saxon
SBOE
Composite Score
35. Attempt - Failure - Frustration - Avoidance - Lack of Practice - No improvement - Loss of esteem - loss of motivation = THIS
Breve
Accent
Joe Torgesen
Mathew Effect
36. 1925 - Coined the term "strephosymbolia" which means twisted symbols; Pathologist - neurologist and psychitrist in the US - studied with Dr. Alzheimer in Germany - work influenced by James Hinshelwood
WRAT
Greek layer of language
Samuel T. Orton
Chall's Stage 4
37. A spoken or written unit that must have a vowel sound and that may include consonants that precede or follow that vowel. Syllables are units of sound made by one impulse of voice.
NICHD
Syllable
Chall's Stage 4
Visual Processing
38. A test in which the results can be used to determine a student's progress toward mastery of a content area. performance is compared to an expected level of mastery in a content area rather that to other student's scores. Such tests usually include qu
Syntax
Criterion referenced tests
5 disorders the related to dyslexia
Morpheme
39. Academic Language Therapy Association
ALTA
Three Layers of Language
Derivative
Anglo Saxon
40. Refers tot he measurement consistency of a test
Reliability
Auditory Processing
Systematic and Cumulative Instruction
IMSLEC
41. A base word or meaningful unit in there terminology of structural linguistics.
Percentile/ percentile rank
Morpheme
Oral Language
Letter naming Chart
42. The process of systematically gathering test scores and related data in order to make judgement about an individuals ability to perform various mental activities involved in the processing - acquisition - retention - conceptualization - and organizat
Cognitive Assessment
Greek layer of language
Raw score
The Norman Conquest
43. 1877 - first to use the term "word-blindness"
Semantics
Adolf Kusmaul
Open Syllable
Attention
44. A significant unit of visual shape. We use the visual shape as to cover not only writing - but also any other shape perceived by the eye which is a visible representation of a unit of speech. A single graphic letter or letter cluster which represents
ESL
Grapheme
Norm-referenced tests
Sight Words
45. Use - pictures - charts - maps - graphs - etc...clear view of teacher - color to highlight important text - ask teacher to provide handouts - illustrate ideas as pictures before writing them down - use multi media
Visual Learners
Standard Scores
Accommodation
Latin layer of language
46. Screening test. Elementary age only. Asks test taker to name the letters of the alphabet
Chall's Stage 0
Social language
Letter naming Chart
Multisensory
47. Two adjacent letters repressing a single consonant sound
Reading Comprehension Support
Chall's Stage 2
Orthography
Consonant Digraph
48. A syllable ending with one or more consonants. The vowel is usually short.
Top-down Reading Approach
Closed Syllable
Norm-Referenced Test
Simultaneous teaching
49. A group of several test standardized on the same sample population so that results on the several tests are comparable. Example : School achievement tests
Macron
WIATII
Curriculum referenced tests
Battery
50. A word that is immediately recognized as a whole and does not require decoding to identify. A sight word may or may not be phonetically regular.
Dr. Rudolf Berlin
Sight Words
Criterion-Referenced Test
Cognitive Assessment